According to a News/report on at IT website, The Wipro Technologies is planing to hire around 8,000 campus Freshers this fiscal year. In a email sent to all freshers seeking jobs in areas such as technical support and offshoring, the IT major Wipro has invited applications for 15,000 seats, report says.

In the mail, the company's corporate vice president for human resources (HR), says nearly 14,000 offers were made last year, with the students expected to join by the end of this fiscal year. He emphasized that there has been no delay in new recruits joining the company, and that those who received offers this year are expected to join the firm within the next fiscal year.

Incidentally, for the first time ever, Wipro in its Q3 report, showed a drop in its employee headcount in the IT services business by about 1,100 as compared to the earlier quarter.

The company went down by 1,092 software engineers and 226 BPO employees during the quarter. Wipro had 96,965 employees as of December 31, 2008, which includes 75,385 employees in IT business unit and 21,578 employees in the BPO unit.

In the JAS quarter, the company had 97,552 employees as of September 30, 2008. Though volumes have grown year-on-year (y-o-y), the number of employees has remained stagnant at year-ago levels.

Our Note: This good news for All Freshers should cheer up the new UP Coming Fresh Passed out Graduates, at this difficult times. We wish all the best for Freshers.